We hope it's not The Final Problem. Sherlock - 9pm Sunday - BBC1

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I thought it might be an idea to start a new thread for The Reichenbach Fall since The Hounds got its thread up to over 200 pages since last Sunday!

Non-spoilery vague preview description: "Sherlock and John lock horns with their old enemy in one final problem that tests loyalty and courage to their very limits. Sherlock must fight for his reputation, his sanity and his life. But is he all he claims to be?"

BBC link for The Reichenbach Fall

Take note of the later start time of 9pm. Get your deerstalkers and spiffy pocket magnifiers ready!

Scatter - he was never like that in the book. The way he dealt with Mrs Hudson's relationship was very harsh and Holmes was never cruel or harsh except with criminals. In fact he often commented on how women are more observant and pay attention to detail. He was very taken with Irene Adler and heaped praise on more than one woman (The Copper Beeches springs to mind). He was certainly no hater of women, he simply treated them as he treated other human beings, as objects of interest to study and often as distractions to his work.
Doyle pained him as a thinking machine very deliberately. Holmes seldom showed emotion of any kind (that annoyed me in the BBC adaption of Hound of the Baskervilles when he showed fear and doubt) so when he did, it was memorable.

Rasputin - This one is rather lovely - not smutty at all but just painful and really makes you want to give John a massive hug.

Very good point about the squash ball LadyClarice.

I'm looking forward to spotting all these things when the DVDs arrive next week. Well, I say spotting them but I probably won't have much of a clue!

I can't take credit for the squash-ball thing. I think it was on the Guardian website. Clever though, eh? Would also explain what I thought was an atypical Sherlock scene ? it didn't seem right to me that he'd be the type to bounce a ball for distraction. Then again, it also felt odd to me that he'd be sitting on the floor, so what do I know?

Lucky you with your DVD! Enjoy.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/bigscreen/radio/episode/b0167vjr

I have just been listening to Mark Gatiss on desert island discs from last October -apologies if you have all already heard this. He sounds a wonderful man, but a little bit worrying as a child?!

Thanks everyone-I've ordered the adventures of and Hounds of the Baskervilles. I'm sure I started reading it too young and got too scared

TheRhubarb- O, shame your not that Rhubarb. She was a funny one not seen for a while

Watching again. He seems genuinely surprised that he has to jump to save them from being shot. God it's good.

Love the Blog too. gratuitous pictures of BC always appreciated

I hope sherlock gets vindicated in the next series, can't wait to see the police's faces.

That Rhubarb was actually a fraud, a completely made up troll I'm afraid who had everyone fooled. She fell off the edge of a waterfall a while ago and has never been seen again....

I bought a copy of The Strand last Sunday with the first four stories in of The Adventures of for £12. I was well chuffed!

If you have a Kindle, some of the stories are free, or it's about a pound for the complete collection. I like the 'real' books with the original illustrations, but they're handy on the Kindle.

Oh, that is exciting Rhubarb, I love seeing that sort of thing

I've got 5 Strand hardback copies now dating from around 1890, one has the first half of the Hound of the Baskervilles in it! I've also got an original magazine that has a Doyle story in it (not Holmes sadly). Plus lots of early editions of the story collections and other Doyle stories. One of my most treasured (apart from The Strand with the Hound story in it) is a second edition of Doyle's autobiography with preface that is now uncommon and which dh bought for me - it was the most expensive too!

Oh and I have a lovely Sherlock Holmes Russian Doll that features Holmes, Watson, Moriarty, Lestrade, Mycroft and the hound . Not to mention lots of other bits and pieces that I've added to my collection over the years.

I'm fully out of the closet now!

I'm not doing a proper link as it will Link back to here, but this is a mash up of him dancing easily found on YouTube!

Rhubarb that is awesome :) amazing to have the hounds edition!! Pmsl at the Russian doll. We have a dictators one which is dh's prized possession along side his russian premiers one (politics geek :) )

And one more to bring the thread down to the lowest common denonmeter:

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A damn good shag]]

My work here is done!

Denominator, sorry (oh the irony! Shouldn't type and cook dinner ay same time!)

SeaShells your second link appears to be broken, but I presume it is ?

I make no apologies for putting this up again, the same clip also features in another video which is my current personal favourite

Just read this article

"Show co-creator Steven Moffat said there was a good explanation for Sherlock's survival - and all the clues were in the episode.
He said: 'It's all set up. We just want people to be in a frenzy of speculation.'
But he added that he would not be revealing any more clues, and added: 'We're going to be complete b* about it.'"

cavemum thank you!

CaveMum - I've seen the "damn good shag" clip before but ..... that other link ..... there are no words ... Well, there are but they're mostly very rude.

Thank you.

The only problem with the second link is it flicks from pic to pic too quickly!
Check out the GQ photos shoot pictures-he was voted best dressed or something. Yum :)

Sorry, back to plot. Having rematches it I have no idea-it definately looked like him falling, and him lying on pavement. You also see a body hit the pavement, not a truck. So I am lost.

Course Sherlock was never meant to be a sex symbol. Doyle made him actually quite ugly, but luckily Sydney Paget based his illustrations upon his brother, who was quite handsome. I think if Paget hadn't done the illustrations for the Strand, we'd be left with a very different Holmes - and perhaps no deerstalker!

Oh yes, the GQ shoot with the cane. I think he was Actor of the Year. I may have mentioned before that I picture him more with a riding crop than a cane.

I'm going to have to watch The Final Problem again. I might even make notes, or is that crossing the line?

He's not bad looking but his kids would look bloody weird.

Taking notes LetUsPrey? We'll make a true Sherlockian of you yet!

I'm currently rewatching LetUsPrey. Just seen the scene with the journalist in the court room toilets. There's a moment there when he gets in her space and looks down his nose at her [shudders in a good way].

Note taking is definitely not crossing the line.

I'm sure I read loads of Sherlock books when I was at school from the school library but we're talking early to mid 1980s!

And our kids would not be weird looking!